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Kitty looked into his face, which was such a short distance from hers, and long afterwards, for several years, tgat look, so full of love, which she gave him then, and to which he did not respond, cut her heart with tormenting shame

She was breathing heavily and not looking at him . She was filled with rapture. Her soul was overflowing with happiness.She had not at all expected that his declaration of love would make so strong an impression on her. But that lasted only for an instant. She remembered Vronsky, Lifted her clear, truthful eyes to Levin's face, and noticing his despair she replied quickly: "It cannot be ....forgive me"

But Levin was in love, and therefore Kitty seemed to him so perfect in every respect, so transcending everything earthly, and he seemed to himself so very earthly and insignificant a creature, that the possibility of his being considered worthy of her by others or by herself was to him unimaginable.